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Retracting my statement from yesterday about agitating on .world (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by GarbageShoot@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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After spending a couple days interacting with them, I have come to agree with the common sentiment hexbear already had that it's probably not worth trying to persuade a small number of steadfast neoliberals among those of us with limited patience, which includes myself.

If I'm a wimp and you still want to go buck wild, of course.

But the suggestion I got that .ee would probably be a better staging ground is at this point taken to heart. Since we are federated with them, I think the thing to do is make (appropriate, non-hostile) posts in .ee communities where the purpose of the comm adequately fits with topics that it would be useful to discuss.

As with my last post, which was misbegotten, it's just a thought I had

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[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago

I still try to antagonize on reddit, it's feels more like that picture of the jester and the dogs with a touch of Jurassic park, move too fast and they ban your ass, move slow af and maybe bit by bit like water shaping the grand Canyon, but sometimes you get them to snap TF, had some neolib snap against capitalism with some egging on using a horror world anecdote and leaving it open ended enough for him to fill in the blank and not resist.

Best thing I've found is showing the just world deal a lot of naive neolibs (not the ones fed by it and comfortably aware of it) is pure happy horseshit, and the whole blaming human nature for the flaws of capitalism is a scam/logical error depending the audience on there.